Alighting Quotes

Sophistication, that modern kind of sophistication that begs to differ, to be paradoxical, to invert, is not a possible attitude in Venice. In time, this becomes the beauty of the place. One gives up the struggle and submits to a classic experience. One accepts the fact that what one is about to feel or say has not only been said before by Goethe or Musset but is on the tip of the tongue of the tourist from Iowa who is alighting in the Piazzetta with his wife in her furpiece and jeweled pin. Those Others, the existential enemy, are here identical with oneself. (Mary McCarthy)
Sarojini Naidu repositioned her own title of Nightingale of India on to Subbalakshmi's avian frame, it was because that daughter of Bengal saw the gift of song arriving and alighting on this daughter of India's south, like a migratory bird from the collective genius of our music. View quote
M. S. Subbulakshmi